<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/17 Peter Lambrechtsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plambrechtsen@gmail.com">plambrechtsen@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:33 PM, William Hamilton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.hamilton@gmail.com" target="_blank">william.hamilton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I am looking at putting some time into Xen as a couple of clients are making noises about virtualisation blah blah. Having had a quick read I see that Windows is not greatly supported unless the processor has virtualisation built in. <div>
<br></div><div>Anyone here doing a mix of Linux/Windows on Xen? (one particular client has a Windows app they cannot get rid of at this stage). Any recomendations on hardware? A number of my boxes are SuperMicro 1U and 2U which I have had good experiences with.<div>
<br></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>I installed a few XEN VM's on a Intel blade system running SLES at 3 schools in wellington. One of them have a 6 Blade IBM Enclosure, another has a 2 blade, the last just has a Intel no-name 1U server which has a Xeon VT CPU in it. They run windows just fine as they all are VT cpus. There is the Novell windows drivers which you can download for free which speeds things up a lot in the VM from the Novell site, if you want the Windows signed versions you need to pay Novell for them, but the unsigned ones work fine for me.<br>
<br>I still prefer VMWare Server, but we put in a 6 node cluster, all runnins XEN with OCFS for the filesystem, and with 8 SLES Linux VM Guests, since all of the boxes supported VT, it made sense to also load 2 Windows guests on them as well.<br>
<br>If the servers you have are not Intel Xeon server class CPUs or don't support VT or the AMD equliviant Hyper-V then VMWare server / ESXi is the way to go. Or you could go down the Virtual Box path.<br><br>Thanks<br>
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<br>Peter<br>
</font><br></blockquote><div>Thanks for this everything - much clearer now. . Peter sounds like you have done what I was looking at.. seems like it could be a goer.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div>
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